Parenting

 

  • Boundaries with Teens, Dr. John Townsend
  • I'm Not Bad, I'm Just Mad, Lawrence E Shapiro, Zach Petla-Heller, Anna F. Greenwald
  • Seven Solutions for Burned-out Parents, Dobson
  • Self Matters: Creating Your life from the Inside Out, Phillip C. McGraw
  • Ask Supernanny, Jo Frost
  • Nanny 911, Carroll and Reid
  • Parenting from Your Strengths: Understanding Strengths and Valuing Differences in Your Home, Trent, Cox and Tooker
  • The Parent’s Handbook, Dinkmeyer and McKay (2 copies)
  • Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads, Wiseman
  • The Effective Parent, Dinkmeyers, McKays
  • Help your Child get into Reading, A Family Literacy Journal, Mates
  • Speaking of Sex, What your Children Need to Know and When they Need to Know it, Hickling
  • Safe Kids Safe Families, Protect your Kids at Home, at School and on the Internet, Wilson
  • The anger Habit in Parenting, A New Approach to Understanding and Resolving Family Conflict, Semmelroth
  • Nurturing the Shy Child, Practical Help for Raising Confident and Socially Skilled Kids and Teens, Markway and Markway
  • Violence Proof your Kids Now, How to Recognize the 8 Warning Signs and What to do about them, Karres
  • Mom, They’re Teasing Me, Helping Your Child Solve Social Problems, Thompson, Cohen and Grace
  • Siblings without Rivalry, How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too, Faber and Mazlish
  • Manners from Heaven, The easier way to better behaviour for all the family, Davoren and Carr
  • Family First, Your Step by Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family, McGraw
  • Family First Workbook, Your Step by Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family, McGraw
  • Because it’s not Wrong Doesn’t Make it Right: from toddlers to teens, teaching kids to think and act ethically, Coloroso
  • Loving without Spoiling: and 100 other Timeless Tips for Raising Terrific Kids, Samalin
  • Raising Kids Who Can: use good judgement, assume responsibility, communicate effectively, respect self and others, cooperate, develop self-esteem and enjoy life, Bettner and Lew
  • The Everything Parent’s Guide to Raising Siblings: Eliminate Rivalry, Avoid Favortism and Keep the Peace, Sonn
  • See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What we Can Do About It, Garbarino
  • Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More than Peers, Neufled and Mate
  • The Bully, the Bullied and , the Bystander: From Pre-School to High School – How Parents and Teachers Can Help Break the Cycle of Violence, Coloroso
  • Real Kids Come in All Sizes: 10 Essential Lessons to Build your Child’s Body Esteem, Kater
  • Playful Parenting: An Exciting New Approach to Raising Children that will Help You – Nurture Close Connections,Solve Behaviour Problems, Encourage Confidence, Cohen
  • Childhood Unbound: Saving Our Kids’ Best Selves – Confident Parenting in a World of Change, Taffel
  • How You Feel is Up To You: the Power of Emotional Choice, McKay and Dinkmeyer
  • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families, Covey
  • How to Behave: So Your Children Will, Too! Severe
  • Win the Whining War and Other Skirmishes: A Family Peace Plan, Whitham
  • Helping Your Child Overcome Separation Anxiety or School Refusal: A Step by Steo Guide for Parents, Eisen and Engler
  • Setting Limits with your Strong-Willed Child: Eliminating Conflict by Establishiing CLEAR, Firm and Respectful Boundaries, MacKenzie
  • Freeing your Child from Negative Thinking, Chansky
  • Children at Risk – What you Need to Know to Protect Your Family, Dobson and Bauer
  • Perfectionism, Adderholdt-Elliott
  • After the Tears – Parents Talk about Raising a Child with a Disability, Simons
  • A Good Enough Parent, Bettelheim
  • Essentials of Adlerian Psychology, Dreikurs
  • 3 Steps to a Strong Family, Eyre
  • Self-Esteem – A Family Affair, Clarke
  • Parenting with Fire – Lighting up the family with Passion and Inspiriation, Boteach
  • E-Parenting – Keeping up with Tech-Savvy Kids, Cindrich
  • Screamfree Parenting, Runkel
  • Becoming a Family – Promoting Healthy Attachments with your Adopted Child, Eshleman
  • Parenting through Crisis, Coloroso
  • The Parent’s Success Guide to Organizing, Dismore
  • The Parent’s Success Guide to Managing a Household, Dismore
  • Growing up Again, Parenting Ourselves, Parenting our Children, Clarke and Dawson
  • Parenting Young Children, Dinkmeyer, McKay and Dinkmeyer
  • The Secret of Happy Children, Biddulph
  • Raising Freethinkers – A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief, McGowan, Matsumura, Metskas and Devor
  • Little Big Minds, McCarty
  • What All Children Want Their Parents to Know – 12 Keys to Raising a Happy Child, Loomans
  • The Schools our Children Deserve – Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and Tougher Standards, Kohn
  • Help Your Child Learn to Read, Root
  • Nanny 911 – Expert Advice tor all your Parenting Emergencies, Carroll and Reid with Moline
  • 13 Dynamics of Raising Great Kids, Koenig (Audio)
  • What to Expect: The Toddler Years,Eisenburg, Murkoff, Hathaway
  • Moms and Dads’ Guide To…Your Child: The Terrific Twos, Bishop
  • Help-My Kid is Driving Me Crazy, Swason
  • The Everything Parent’s Guide to Dealing With Bullies, Carpenter
  • The Leader In Me – How Schools and Parents Around The World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time, Covey
  • The Moral Intelligence of Children, Coles
  • Punished With Rewards – The Trouble With Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes, Kohn
  • The Seven Habits of Happy Kids, Covey
  • Ask An Expert – Answers Every Parent Needs To Know, Halsey
  • Character Is The Key – How To Unlock The Best in Children And Ourselves, Dimmerman
  • The reading Solution – Make Your Child A Reader For Life, Kropp
  • Nurture Shock – New thinking about Children, Bronson and Merryman
  • Parenting With Love & Logic, Cline and Fay
  • Enjoy the ride – Tools, Tips, and Inspiration for the Most Common Parenting Challenges, Martyn
  • The Schools Our Children Deserve, Kohn
  • Unplug the Christmas Machine – A Complete Guide For Putting Love and Joy Back Into the Season,, Robinson and Coppock Staeheli
  • In the Realm Of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addictions, Mate
  • The Worried Child: Recognizing Anxiety in Children and Helping Them Heal, Foxman
  • Reaching The Difficult Child And Teen, Taylor
  • Coping With An Anxious or Depressed Child, Cartwright-Hatton
  • Why Did you Die? Activities To Help children Cope With Grief And Loss, Leeuwenburgh and Goldring
  • Blue Sky July: A Mother’s Story of Hope and Healing, Wyn
  • Notes Left Behind, Desserich
  • Everything Parent’s Guide to Raising Boys (2nd Edition), Erwin
  • Early Intervention & Autism– Real-life Questions, Real Life Answers, James Ball
  • A Parents Guide to Inclusive Education
  • Autism Encyclopedia:The Complete Guide Autism Spectrum Disorders, Boutot/Tincani
  • The Big Book of Parenting Solutions, Michele Borba
  • The Whole-Brain Child, Siegel/Bryson
  • iRules, Hofmann
  • The 5 Love Languages of Children, Chapman/Campbell
  • Your Anxious Child, Dacey/Fiore
  • Freeing Your Child From Anxiety, Chansky
  • When Your Child has Been Molested, Kathryn Brohl
  • The Gifts of Imperfection, Brene Brown
  • When Perfect Isn't Good Enough, M. Antoney and R. Swinson
  • Can I Tell You About Gender Diversity?, CJ Atkinson
  • Helping Your Transgender Teen, Irwin Krieger
  • Raising The Transgender Child, Dr. Michel Angello and Alisa Bowman
  • Becoming an Ally to The Gender-Expansive Child, Anna Bianchi
  • Beyond Magenta-Transgender Teens Speak Out, Susan Kuklin
  • The Gender Quest Workbook, Rylan Testa, Deborah Coolhart, Jayme Peta
  • Healing Your Grieving Heart after Stillbirth, Wolfelt & Maloney
  • Empty Arms-Support for those who Have Suffered a Miscarriage, Stillbirth or Tubal Pregnancy, Pam Vredevelt
  • Parenting from the Inside Out, Siegel and Hartzell
  • A Sober Mom's Guide to Recovery, O'Connor

 

 

COMMUNICATION

 

  • How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk, Faber and Mazlish
  • We Need to Talk: Tough Conversations with Your Kids, Heyman
  • Connecting with Your Kids, Smith
  • Just Between You and Me: An Interactive Journal for Parents and Their Children, Rumpf
  • Oh, What You Said!: A Journal for Recording the Surprising Things Children Say, Boston Mills
  • 10 Conversations you Need to Have with Your Children, Boteach
  • Ten Talks Parents Must have With their Children About Sex and Character, Schwartz and Cappello
  • Talking To Your Kids About Sex, Berman
  • Questions Kids As About Sex:  Honest Answers for Every Age, Thomas Fitch
  • Fundamentals of Adlerian Psychology, Rudolf R. Dreikers,M.D.
  • Connecting With Your Kids,move from chaos to closeness, Timothy Smith
  • Kids Are Worth It! Raising resilient,responsible, compassionate kids, Barbara Coloroso
  • Supernanny: How to get the best from your children, Jo Frost
  • If I Have to Tell You One More Time…The Revolutionary Program That Gets your Kids To Listen Without Nagging, reminding, or Yelling, Amy McCready
  • How to Talk so Kids will Listen & Listen so Kids will Talk, Faber/Mazlish

 

JUST FOR DADS

 

  • So You’re Going to be a Dad, Peter Downey
  • If We Ever Break Up, This is My Book, Logan
  • The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Being an Expectant Father, Joe Kelly
  • Daddy Needs a Drink: An Irreverent Look at Parenting from a Dad Who Truly Loves His Kids – Even When They’re Driving Him Nuts, Wilder
  • They Call Me Dad: The Practical Art of Effective Fathering, Canfield
  • Better Homes and Gardens New father Book: What Every New Father Needs to Know to Be a Good Dad, Horn, Rosenberg
  • The Guy’s Guide to Surviving Toddlers, Tantrums and Separation Anxiety* (*yours, not your kids), Michael Criders
  • So, You’re Going to be a Dad, Downey
  • Best Things Fathers Do: Ideas and advice from Real World Dads, Glennon
  • What to Expect When Your Wife is Expanding: A Reassuring Month-by-Month Guide for the Father-to-Be, Whether He Wants Advice or Not, Hill
  • Fatherneed – Why Father Care is as Essential as Mother Care for Your Child, Pruett
  • 52 Things Kids Need from a Dad, Payleitner

 

 JUST FOR MOMS

 

  • The Single Mom’s Guide to Finding Joy in the Chaos, Colopy
  • Mom, There’s a Man in the Kitchen and he’s Wearing your Robe: The Single Mother’s Guide to Dating Well without Parenting Poorly, Fisher
  • How to Rescue your Child from the Obesity Threat, Larimore, Flynt and Halliday
  • Overcoming Childhood Obesity, Thompson and Shanley
  • The Secret Life of Super Mom: How the Woman Who Does It All Does It, Buckwort
  • When You’re About to go off the Deep End, Don’t Take Your Kids with You: A Step-by-Step Guide to Permanently Eliminate Chaos and Frustration in Your Home and unleash the Ultimate Mom Within You, Nault
  • Dear Mom – Everything Your Teenage Daughter Wants You To Know But Won’t Tell You, Carlson
  • Mom, They’re Teasing Me: Helping Your Child Solve Social Problems, Thompson, Cohen, O’Neill Grace
  • Strong Mothers, Strong Sons, Meeker

 

 

 

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Staff

  • Alicia Lehoux – Executive Director
  • Thyra Berg – Program Manager
  • Brenda Twidale – Program Facilitator/ Triple P Parenting
  • Shane Schiele - Fun With Dads Group Facilitator

Board of Directors

  • Vicky Stueck – Board Chairperson
  • Marika Chiverton – Secretary
  • Carla Waterman – Vice Chairperson
  • Debbie Schiltz – Board Member
  • Miles Nauchbar – Board Member